“Our son and daughter are 8 months and 3 days apart in age. We often get asked if they’re twins, and when we tell people ‘no,’ we regularly get the, ‘Wow, you guys got busy,’ response.”
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“Alcohol was a coping skill, a mood enhancer, a party buffer. It was present at every family get together I’ve been a part of. It was normal to BYOB to first holy communion lunches, summertime fires, and every Sunday after 8:30 a.m. mass. We were a drinking family and always have been.”
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“They say you will know when you’re done, and from the bottom of my heart I know I am.”
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“He brought up the idea of traveling with him and I agreed to give this camper life a chance.”
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“‘Don’t get your hopes up. The sample didn’t look good. In fact, I’m not even going to charge you for the visit today.’ As we left the clinic, I had an empty feeling in the pit of my stomach. This was never going to work.”
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“Regardless of our intentions, giving advice that isn’t requested is at best annoying and at worst invasive and manipulative.”
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“We decided to do a walk around our property to look for any plants that could have given her this bad of a reaction. And then…we found it. Our property (and all of our neighbor’s properties) were lined with hundreds of them.”
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“I wanted to put myself through a small fraction of discomfort to show my wife, ‘I acknowledge your suffering and I am eternally grateful for these children you carried.'”
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“After the greatest storm of my life, I was able to look out of the hospital room window and see a beautiful rainbow.”
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“The nurse explained, ‘Your lab results came back, and they are scary.’ We were officially in ‘get-these-babies-out-ASAP’ territory.”